On a lighter note, I hated the NBC (nuclear, biological and chemical defence) drills during conscription. Running around the woods with gas masks and those capes. In the summer you sweat like a mother pig, in the winter the ice cold gas masks and showers...

I'm pretty sure that the feeling for that is universal, I don't think that there has ever been a comfortable gas mask designed. Although for us, I think it was called CBRN (chemical, biological, radioactive, nuclear) training.

I really hated gas masks, probably more than I hated sand in my asscrack. For some reason I started salivating in a similar fashion to when I was reacting to tear gas, the only exception being was that in a gas mask you can't really spit.

The way gas masks need to hug your face and head so tightly it's probably impossible to make them feel very comfortable. Then again they aren't made for very fun situations either.

I didn't serve, and we had ABC drills only in high school, but while I didn't really mind masks themselves (it was famous OM-14 AKA "elephant"), folding them back into the bag was a major hassle, I could never manage it neatly. Although I was never good in packing stuff in general.

There was a "funny" incident, when one of girls (with a long hair) got stuck in a mask for half an hour or sth. If it wasn't a pre-smartphones era, it could end on YT...

Doesn't matter if it is in european side. Turkey's fate is so intertwined with Europe that it doesn't make sense to exclude Turkey (or the other countries ppl raise issue Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan) from this subreddit.

At the end of the day if you don't want to read something about Turkey you just don't open the link. Ppl like to troll...